Today in History
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1962 Francis Gary Powers, a U.S. spy captured by the Soviet Union, is released
Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spy, Rudolf Ivanovich Abel.
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1964 An aircraft carrier collides with a destroyer in Australia, killing 82
Destroyer HMAS Voyager sailed under aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourn's bow, was cut in half and sank.
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1964 Bob Dylan's album “The Times They Are A-Changin'” is released
The title track is one of Dylan's best-known songs.
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1996 Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning world champion
Despite his defeat in the first game, Russian world champion Garry Kasparov proceeded to win the mat
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2009 Two satellites collide in space
Both the U.S. satellite “Iridium 33” and the Russian “Kosmos 2251” were destroyed in the accident.
Births On This Day,
February, 10
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1929 Jerry Goldsmith
American composer, conductor
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1898 Bertolt Brecht
German author
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1894 Harold Macmillan
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1890 Boris Pasternak
Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate
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1744 William Cornwallis
English Admiral
Deaths On This Day,
February, 10
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2005 Arthur Miller
American playwright
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1932 Edgar Wallace
English journalist, author, playwright
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1923 Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1837 Alexander Pushkin
Russian author, poet
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1755 Montesquieu
French philosopher
